The comedic sausage is made. Hillary clinton bowled over catcher in Campaign Staff softball game. Love it. Then a date with clooney or a bike ride with bono all for a good cause. The powerful new trend in philanthropy thats boosting fundraising. This one you got to go on a best friend double date. He won the collapse to be in star wars the force awakens. And richard angle will take us to the democratic republic of congo for a love story. Richard will join us in studio a bit later in the show. Lets begin with the latest on the race for the white house starting with republicans who are trying this week to come together. Donald trump met with House Speaker paul ryan on capitol hill. Ryan was asked a very pointed question about trump. [ inaudible question ] well, i think the question is where are we going from here . Im not focused on wading into the day by day commenting internet back and forths. Im interested in preserving policies and principles that unify us and give the country a clea
Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. Host tell us about ricardo. Guest you have to write this book because nobody knows him. If that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the Cuban Foreign minister, cute and United Nations representative in new york at the cuban head of Natural Assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. He has been a public human figure, he knows more secrets, has bee
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched
We will be here again all day on sunday. Joining us on our outdoor set, author and radio talkshow host hugh hewitt. Mr. Hewitt, we brought you on to talk about your newest book but i i dont have a copy of. Guest secrecy. It is about hillary. We are keeping it very under wraps until it releases. First of all i want to to congratulate you on bringing books to usc. All all my trojan friends out there command talking about you. I have written a book based closely on nokia valleys the prints which was published 500 years ago. Some people say was that was 502, published 502, some people say 498. And so i wrote a book of advice for hillary on how to when and how to govern. That will be released on june 19. Some of my republican friends are going to like it because it is how she could win and govern. Host what is it called . Guest it is called the queen. Host how did you come up with that name . Guest because it is not the prince is the queen. I we will do everything i can to stop her from win
A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i come to the floor today to talk about the damage obamacare is doing to the struggling economy. Now after months of unrelenting coverage of obamacares many problems and after fridays release of decembers dismal jobs report, im sure democrats here in the senate would prefer that we talk about almost anything else. After all, when you have held most of the power in washington here for the last five years, you dont want to mention the fact that your main legacy is a sluggish economy and a disastrous train wreck of a health care program. This past friday, we found out that december marked the weakest month of job growth since january of 2011. The economy added just 74,000 jobs in december, less than half of the monthly job growth needed for a real recovery